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Clelia, the character who says "I," the protagonist of *Tra donne sole*, is a woman who is no longer young, who lives proudly from her work, in rough and surly solitude, and looks at and judges the restless society of the good bourgeoisie of the early post-war period, the somewhat snobbish intellectual circles, the somewhat desperate and somewhat cynical girls, all against a background of imminent ruin. In this edition there is the addition of letters by Cesare Pavese and Italo Calvino, which offer the starting point for an unprecedented critical reading of the novel. The screenplay of Michelangelo Antonioni's film *Le amiche* is included in the appendix.